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Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 12:18:12 PM

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emergency-reported-hanford-nuclear-site-washington/

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An emergency was declared Tuesday at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington after a portion of a tunnel that contains rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed.

The alert, which was later expanded to a site area emergency, was activated shortly before 8:30 a.m. at the Hanford Emergency Operations Center, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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The accident occurred at a facility known as PUREX, located in the middle of the sprawling Hanford site, which is half the size of Rhode Island. The closed PUREX plant was part of the nation's nuclear weapons production complex.

Authorities say the collapse took place within one of two rail tunnels under the PUREX site, which contains contaminated materials. One tunnel is about 360 feet long, and the other spans approximately 1,700 feet. The partial collapse, which covered about 400 square feet, took place in an area where the two tunnels join together. The incident caused the soil above the tunnel to sink between 2 and 4 feet.

Nuclear incidents are serious business. I sincerely hope they get this mess cleaned up soon without serious loss of life or injury.

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 12:32:33 PM

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Long on the record as saying there is no safe way to store that muck.

There is no such thing as "geologically stable" either

The ethos seems to be we can bury it for a bit

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 1:45:10 PM

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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emergency-reported-hanford-nuclear-site-washington/

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An emergency was declared Tuesday at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington after a portion of a tunnel that contains rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed.

The alert, which was later expanded to a site area emergency, was activated shortly before 8:30 a.m. at the Hanford Emergency Operations Center, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Nuclear waste clean-up delayed and billions over budget
Hanford nuclear waste: Proposed storage site prompts new criticism
Hanford Nuclear Reservation's leaking tanks latest woe for decades-old site
6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking

The accident occurred at a facility known as PUREX, located in the middle of the sprawling Hanford site, which is half the size of Rhode Island. The closed PUREX plant was part of the nation's nuclear weapons production complex.

Authorities say the collapse took place within one of two rail tunnels under the PUREX site, which contains contaminated materials. One tunnel is about 360 feet long, and the other spans approximately 1,700 feet. The partial collapse, which covered about 400 square feet, took place in an area where the two tunnels join together. The incident caused the soil above the tunnel to sink between 2 and 4 feet.

Nuclear incidents are serious business. I sincerely hope they get this mess cleaned up soon without serious loss of life or injury.

They have been working on cleaning up that place for a while and it will take a long while more. I don't think this accident will harm the generating station or the other nuclear research in the area though.

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 2:31:20 PM

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One can not clean up an eternity

all get that into your thick skulls
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Does anyone wish to watch that with meits really rather good? - at the very very ending he truns his attention from the cathedral to windscale - so good the english jackals names it Sellafield a bit later

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 3:15:02 PM

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One of several hats I wear at work is "Hazmat Response".
My thoughts are with the workers.

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 4:26:08 PM

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And my slippers on my feet but what has that to do wit the price of cheese?

or are you, schizo hat wearer, kinda i was there when the 7/11 went down

Donald Trump flubs terror attacks on '7/11'

heh you gonna bury it for abit and do you even understand radioactivity gormless

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/9/2017 5:00:45 PM

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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire

Long on the record as saying there is no safe way to store that muck.

There is no such thing as "geologically stable" either

The ethos seems to be we can bury it for a bit

Contrary to mr know it all brit, there is areas on the planet that are geologically stable.

The now abandoned Yucca Mountain site qualified, but then no one in the state of Nevada wanted a nuclear waste site in their state.

Of course, storing it in a big hollowed out section of a granite mountain would be better, and no, I am not talking Cheyenne mountain, former NORAD command center, but there are four other former military projects that would work just as well, but then the Department of Defense still owns those and they wont give them up.

You see, many many MANY years ago, a Keyhole surveillance bird passed over the former Soviet Union as they were prone to do, even though this particular bird was launched by the US Geological Service allegedly for the orbital study of land formations.

Now, the sensors and cameras on this particular Keyhole bird was equally suited for orbital geologic surveys, as were every one of the keyhole series. However, this Keyhole also carried a low powered laser area that the USGS had developed to scan for minor seismic events.

Anyway, as I was saying, this bird over flew the Soviet Union and not only did it pick up a moderate and very localized seismic event, but the cameras took a lot of pictures of construction equipment milling around a mountain (even going into the mountain) in the Central Urals.

This was shortly after the Soviets tried to purchase a TBM of the type used to build the Chunnel.

Well this peaked the interest of the CIA, NSA, British Intelligence, and had folks scrambling to figure out what was going on.

Long story short, the Soviets were working on an underground complex that makes Cheyenne Mountain look like a prairie dog borrow.

So, the DoD started a couple of similar construction projects in the wonderful granite of the Rockies, Bitterroots and spent a few billion dollars before they figured out that the Soviets had stopped their massive project because they ran out of ruples.

So, you have three empty, man made caverns in three separate granite mountains that could, theoretically, hold all of the current and projected nuclear waste.

Personally though, I would much rather ship it off and store it under homes of various anti gun non Americans.

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RE: Hanford Nuclear Site colapse - 5/10/2017 3:58:20 AM

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The railcar tunnel collapsed.

Back Story… Purex was the last plutonium refinery complex built. It was designed to be able to recycle spent commercial nuclear fuel to meet the legal mandate for the DOE to take custody of all spent commercial nuclear fuel by fiscal year 1998.

After the fall of the Berlin wall; executive order in 1989 called for putting all the nuclear weapon pipeline into “standby” and shutting down production. Thousands of workers at Hanford were given 30 day notice of losing their jobs. Workers were presented with large task lists of things to do to put all the machinery in layup. Anectodally, there were huge card tournaments during the last month. Purex was only entered annually to check status. The ventilation was kept operational so special nuclear material couldn’t be released to the environment without monitoring and filtration.

In 2003, there was a re-entry attempt. It was bad. Umbrella corporation bad. All the material left in the pipes that were supposedly drained and flushed had eaten up the systems and there were puddles of plutonium nitrate on the floor. The entry had to be made by a robot as the contamination levels on the inner airlock door (damaged door) were too high for anything but Class A hazmat suits. Purex was not capable of being restored to operation but is just one more superfund cleanup site. The Carter administration policy that only government run and administered facilities can deal with recycling nuclear fuel had come home to rest with a vengeance.

Purex was sealed back up and the DOE let multimillion dollar contracts to study the issue.

The solution for the railway tunnel collapse, if Handord follows historical precedent, will be to fill the hole with dirt and walk away leaving a larger cleanup for posterity.

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